Bismarck

loc · Latin script

Meaning: also bourgeois name; clipped from Bischofsmark, ON Bismarck at the border of the bishopric of Verden

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/bɪzmɑɹk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Bismarck is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Argentina.

rarermore common
  • ARArgentina
  • MXMexico

Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Argentina (inferred from the name graph)

no count published

Sources
118 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

also bourgeois name; clipped from Bischofsmark, ON Bismarck at the border of the bishopric of Verden

Sources 1

  • Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung

Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Bismarck counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Where Bismarck is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
AR Argentina—2Bismarck19
MX Mexico—7Bismarck52
BR Brazil—848—66
US United States—420—118
CR Costa Rica—109—16
UY Uruguay—53—11

Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015); INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Bismarck is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written บิสมาร์ก

44 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Bismarck is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In German, Altmark in Magdeburg, recorded c. 1200 in the form Biscopesmark, from its situation on the boundary (see Mark 2) of a bishopric.

    as a nameA dictionary of surnames

  • In English, A dessert pastry:

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In German, a German battleship during the Second World War, the sister ship to the Tirpitz

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Finnish, A certain card game.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Croatian, pruski premijer (1862—1873, 1873—1890), osnivač i prvi kancelar Njemačkog Carstva (1871—1890); autokratski vladar, ujedinio Njemačku i diplomatskim akcijama joj osigurao prestižno mjesto u Europi

    as a wordHrvatski jezični portal (HJP) dictionary export

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

16001700180019002000Ludolf August von Bismarck, b. 1683Friedrich Wilhelm Graf von Bismark, b. 1783Friedrich, Graf von Bismarck-Bohlen, b. 1818Wilhelm von Bismarck, b. 1852Herbert Bismarck, b. 1884Georg von Bismarck, b. 1891Bismarck Myrick, b. 1940Bismarck Barreto Faria, b. 1969Bismarck du Plessis, b. 1984Bismarck Appiah, b. 1995

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

How to address them(machine-generated)

FormalDear Colleague,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 23 sources across 12 countries.

Official registers attesting Bismarck
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)2022848—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—848#9,257
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)2010815—
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)2000734—
BR BrazilBrasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA)—700#4,894
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—681#11,829
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)1990433—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020420#23,187
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)1990301—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)1980165—
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)1980136—
CR Costa RicaTSE — electoral roll (padrón) names—109#2,052

Reference works 2

  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Bismarck mean, and where does it come from?
also bourgeois name; clipped from Bischofsmark, ON Bismarck at the border of the bishopric of Verden Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
How do you pronounce Bismarck?
A machine transcription gives /bɪzmɑɹk/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Bismarck have the most bearers?
Bismarck is most frequently recorded in Argentina, where it is most often spelled bismarck.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Bismarck”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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